"Alright, alright! I'm going to stay in this room and I'm not going to run around! ”

Facing the uneasy eyes of her brother and cousin, the apple-faced little girl promised again and again, and waved her hand urging at the same time, "Go down, go down, the dance is about to start!" ”

When the rosewood carved door covered the back of the brother and sister leaving, the little girl turned her head and muttered, "Long-winded, I don't worry about me", supporting the baby's fat little face, bright blue eyes boredly patrolling down, looking around.

Her maid stood in the corner, hiding her existence as much as she could, lest the proud and rebellious lady of heaven think of any idea and use her as a toy.

"Hmph, the world of adults!"

The little girl looked at the pair of men and women walking down the dance floor arm in arm, and couldn't help but think of her father and the woman, as well as her mother who was pregnant in the house and had not yet learned the truth, her eyes flashed with coldness and disgust, and she habitually pouted.

The huge dance floor is a sight to behold.

The crystal marble floor even reflects the reflection of people moving, and under the large chandelier with weeping branches directly above, a pair of masked men and women dance in it, constructing the splendor of the upper world in the glorious hall, like a dream.

But for the little girl, who was already at the top of this high pyramid at birth, this extravagant and flashy scene was commonplace for her, and at first she looked at it with interest for a while, and soon became bored, lying on the side of the fence, and boredly counting the number of cherubs carved on the pillars.

Counting the little angels, I unconsciously wandered for a while, and when I came back to my senses, the opening three dances had passed, and now I was playing a classic minuet composed by a famous family.

"Hey, I'm bored! Go get me some fruit salad and drinks! The little girl raised her hand and did not look back.

The maid hesitated. But seeing that this noble lady had indeed been in peace for a long time, and was afraid that something would happen to her if she was unsatisfactory, she hesitated for a moment, but after all, she did not dare to disobey and left as ordered.

"Huh?"

There was only a little girl left in the room, bored, but she inadvertently caught a glimpse of a detail.

On the dance floor, the young Grand Duke, who had untied his cloak and dressed in formal dress, exchanged dance partners with his master, and for the first time let the purple-robed female mage leave him.

After the song was over, the young Grand Duke and Princess Catherine retreated to the dance floor. The pair of Prince Charles and the female mage have no intention of leaving the dance floor for the time being.

The young Grand Duke was not in a hurry, and stood on the edge of the dance floor and watched the situation inside. Suddenly, as if he had seen something, he said a few words to Princess Catherine and walked out of the crowd.

"Young and handsome, if I were three years older, I would have snatched him from that woman. Disgusting to her! ”

The little girl muttered to herself, and following the young duke's line of sight, she saw Elizabeth, who was wearing a conservative hollow silver velvet skirt and a tall rigid skirt collar that wrapped her neck all over the line, and seemed to be looking in the direction of the young duke.

From the perspective of the little girl's overlook, she couldn't see the looks of the two clearly. saw that the two were separated by a heavy crowd, as if nodding inadvertently.

Then the two did not cross paths further, and Princess Elizabeth said a few words to her male companion. Walking towards the left corner door without hurry, the young Grand Duke stood in place for a moment, signaled to the purple-robed female mage on the dance floor, and then walked to the right corner door first.

The little girl noticed a maid waiting by the pillar by the corner door. Before the young archduke walked to the corner gate, he flashed into the corner gate.

"Interesting! Was it an appointment? ”

The little girl lifted her spirits at once. Recalling the architectural structure of this main building, he showed a sly and evil smile, stood up without thinking, and walked towards the door.

But after taking two steps, she didn't wait for the door, and she remembered something, and took off the small silver crown from her head and put it on the shelf beside her.

It was too late to change the dress on her body, and the little girl looked around, and suddenly her eyes lit up.

She felt for the lining of the two cloaks hanging from the hanger, and in the second she found a token, grabbed it in her hand, and after thinking about it, she took a short dark brown man's cloak from the hanger.

A short cloak that reached the ground on her body enveloped her ornate outfit.

Then the little girl opened a crack in the door, poked her head, and walked out lightly.

……

On the dance floor, Lin An had already seen Lenster's departure.

People's attention is basically on the people on the dance floor, especially her and Charles's dance partners, who inadvertently missed the movement of the people next to them, and no one found any clues for a while when Lancet and Elizabeth left.

"Do you have a habit of not paying attention to your partner when you dance?"

Charles in front of him had a deep voice.

His voice has a sultry magnetism, with a gorgeous tail note, ranking among the top three male voices that Lin An has heard.

Lin An came back to his senses and replied lightly: "Actually, it's because I don't have a special preference for dancing. ”

"You've always been special, so it's a pleasure to dance with you.

If I'm not mistaken, this is the first time you've stepped onto the dance floor since you entered the Imperial Capital, and I'm the first man other than Archduke Lanster to have the privilege of dancing with you—and I almost feel like my back is going to be burned through with jealous gaze. ”

Charles lowered his head, the distance between the two was a little closer, his voice was slightly low, because of the two consecutive spinning dance steps, the distance between the two was a little closer, so close that Lin An's slightly dark blue eyes behind Charles's mask flashed with some kind of light.

Charles was suppressing something in front of him, Lin An was very familiar with what was hidden in it, the pupils in the depths of his black eyes shrank to the size of a needle, and his dancing steps suddenly stopped.

Because they were striding and sliding at this time, the two happened to stagger, Charles reflexively clenched, and then reacted, and tried to disguise his strength.

But this was enough, taking advantage of the opportunity to exchange dance partners in the middle of the dance music, Lin An quickly turned around, broke away from Charles's hand, and replaced it with a young man passing by, in the eyes of outsiders, it was completely the action of exchanging dance partners.

Charles's eyes sank, and he watched Lin An and the unfamiliar new dance partner sliding away a few steps. Out of his sight.

But although he was unwilling in his heart, he couldn't reveal anything.

Now is the critical time, the relationship between his father and Lin An is quite delicate, he can't take a wrong step at this time, and the words just now are also driven by the emotion, Lin An can take the initiative to leave, he is not only unhappy, but also a little lucky.

"What a seductive banshee!" It was the only thought in his mind.

With Lin An leaving, there was a lot less attention on his body, and Charles still remembered to maintain his image in front of people. From time to time, he looked to the edge of the dance floor, found Princess Catherine, and occasionally turned to face Catherine's defense. He will also give her a smile.

Princess Catherine also smiled happily back, with her right hand adorned with a diamond chain, occasionally caressing her abdomen that had not yet protruded, and her body exuded a faint maternal brilliance, and the relationship between the two was so beautiful that it was eye-catching.

"Your Highness. What a husband you are! The young lady who danced with him said enviously when she heard the chatter of people on the dance floor.

"You're wrong." Charles smiled gently.

At the end of the dance, Charles gracefully returned the dance partner to the male partner, and then returned to Catherine, gently wrapping his arms around his wife's waist.

He whispered a few words softly, then looked up apologetically and said goodbye to the guests. Only the envious gaze of everyone was left to see this affectionate couple.

But no one noticed that before Charles left, he glanced at Victoria next to Ludwig through the crowd.

The latter saw the hint in Charles' eyes. A faint flush appeared on the side of the bright face, and after a while, on the pretext of touching up makeup, he temporarily left Ludwig and walked with the maid to the corner door.

……

Lin An at this time. The dance partner, who had suddenly gotten rid of the puppet who suddenly fell from the sky, saw this scene on the edge of the dance floor. His eyes flashed slightly, but a voice came from his ears:

"Don't you think it's boring here?"

The red-haired and red-eyed female admiral walked up to her, with one hand in the side pocket of her hunting suit, her tall and tall figure, and the handsome silhouette exposed under the mask, making her more attractive than many young men near the dance floor, especially when she stood with Lin An.

But Edwina didn't care about other people's eyes, and leaned into Lin An's ear like a somewhat frivolous disciple, and her smile contained disdain:

"Every time I go to the imperial capital, I have to see this kind of hypocrisy that makes people want to be blind, and sometimes I really want to expose the truth under the fake curtain and see what the expressions of those well-dressed nobles will be."

Lin An only felt that this heir of the Kaye family seemed to be too shallow and profound, but did he feel the other party's malice.

It's just that the other party is unpredictable, and before she understands the other party's purpose, she will not be moved by the other party's words, and smiles slightly, but she doesn't have time to speak, but she listens to Edwina say with a sneer:

“…… This model couple who were praised by the upper nobles of the imperial capital, the woman had a close relationship with a baron fifteen years older than her in private since before marriage, and the man had seventeen mistresses of different lengths after marriage, except for once every five days, they usually had no married life at all.

— and...... In the past half month, Princess Victoria has stayed in the Three Princes' Mansion every two or three days; It is also said that since the entry of the recipients into the capital, Miss Heidi, whom His Royal Highness Charles has begun to favor exclusively, has beautiful long hair that is close to sandalwood......"

Lin An's face changed suddenly.

Although it was only a fleeting expression, too fast to catch, Edwina, who had been paying attention to her face, could see the sudden rise of the storm in those dark eyes.

The wave of darkness that rose in her eyes was terrifying, and Adwina only felt a cold killing machine rushing towards her, and she realized that she had provoked a prehistoric beast that was extremely hidden!

But at this time, Adwina couldn't even pull out, and she instantly felt an invisible huge pressure exerted on her body!

People on the dance floor came and went one after another, but she seemed to be isolated from another world by some invisible barrier, the music and laughter were far away from her, and she felt that only the endless pressure brought by the woman in front of her was left.

Adwina felt as if thousands of years had passed, and when she felt returned, the people around her seemed to be unaware of the anomaly that was close at hand, and they were laughing and chatting as before.

When she came back to her senses, the black-haired and black-eyed woman was gone, not even a word left, and only air remained where she had been.

Edwina understands why she is the way she is.

Because under the absolute strength, the other party was not afraid that she would proclaim some of the truths she had just speculated on, because the truly intelligent people knew what the black-haired female mage had just revealed. I'm afraid it's just the tip of the iceberg of her and the power behind her:

The Kaye family is not as good as the Merlin royal family, with a turtle shell that covers an imperial capital, and can not be afraid of the power of the legendary existence, and the power behind the black-haired female mage will not mind erasing a mere family to vent her anger.

However, this reckless temptation is not without gains:

Judging from the sudden violent reaction of the black-haired female mage, as if she had been stabbed in the most painful place, some of the things that the family had deduced from the collected information were extremely close to the truth-

"I'm really looking for my own death!"

The moment when I was enveloped by the power of a female mage. Edwina really feels like she is dying, so I don't know if this sentence is a comment on Merlin's royal family, or self-deprecation for herself. Or both.

In the eyes of others, Edwina's face suddenly turned a little paler, but she clearly felt that the underwear under the hunting suit had long been soaked with cold sweat, and her body had been trained by non-stop martial arts training since she was five years old. At this point, he was too weak to move.

Adwina slowly worked her fighting energy in her body, and the suppressed and interrupted fighting energy was back in motion, and she stood still for a moment before she could barely move her legs, trying to squeeze through the crowd on the edge of the dance floor with a slow pace that no one else noticed.

Get out of the crowd and the edges. The circulating air made Adwina feel a little more comfortable, and the pounding of her heartbeat and the blood pumping in her veins made her feel like she was alive.

But she didn't have time to spend much time enjoying the wonderfulness. Pull a passing waiter and call in the guards he left outside.

The guards who came in were the sons of retainers who had grown up with Adwina, and when they came to Edwina's side, they couldn't help but be shocked when they noticed the slight tremor of the body under the seemingly normal surface of the female admiral's body whose strength had been sharpened by the battlefield.

"Lord Admiral!"

"Don't talk!"

Edwina was straight. In fact, half of the weight of his body has been handed over to the other party, and the lip piece can barely see the flutter. The whisper almost squeezed out between his teeth, "Help me go!" ”

This time it was really careless!

She shouldn't have disturbed the monster hidden under the beautiful skin before she knew enough, her love just now was out of control for a while, maybe when she came back to her senses, she would kill again, she had to take the opportunity to leave quickly!

"Don't say goodbye to your master?"

"Let Cody stay, and then go and say goodbye to me when we're gone—let's go!"

Leaving the main building, the two guards that Edwina had brought into the manor gathered together and made a decision in a few words, and the remaining one of the guards immediately helped Edwina to walk out, while the guards who were about to stay went to the backyard and asked the coachman to drive the carriage to the front door.

"No, go back! Let's get straight on the bus! ”

With her instincts on the battlefield, Adwina sensed the imminence of some kind of crisis, and did not want to wait any longer, so she went straight to the backyard to get in the car.

The two guards had no objections, and they both saw from Edwina's actions that the situation was critical, and immediately obeyed Edwina's orders.

The backyard is already close at hand, and along the colorful brick path leading to the backyard, fluorite lamps hang from the top of elegant black lampposts, exuding a quiet and quiet light.

There were a number of carriages parked in the backyard, but the carriage in which Adwina was riding had been re-harnessed and parked on the path, and the coachman and the guards who had gone to inform them stood under the carriage, looking anxiously.

As soon as they appeared, the guards by the carriage immediately ran over.

"Lord Admiral, the back door has been opened, and you will be able to get out soon."

Adwina's pace slowed, and as she approached the carriage, the instincts she felt in her spirit grew stronger, almost pricking her nerves like pins and needles, her heart pounding, thumping, thumping, and the sound of blood rushing through her veins could almost be heard in her ears!

“…… Stop it! Get back! I'll be right back—"

"—come here."

A soft, cold female voice abruptly reached Edwina's ears, interrupting her hurried and sudden command, but the guards beside her were unaware.

Edwina's voice stopped abruptly, and the guards, who were overwhelmed by her orders, saw a flush on her pale face, and quickly returned to normalcy like a return to light:

"No, get in the car!" She said.

Walking to the door, Adwina stopped the guard who was about to open the door for her, and sat the guard and the driver together.

She stood still in front of the car door, straightened her collar and flicked her bangs. Flatten the folds on the surface of your clothes when you scurried away, straighten your waist again, and hold your right hand on the door handle.

The door opened, and the black-haired and dark-eyed female mage sat in the shadows that the light leaked through the door, and the eyes that reflected in the darkness seemed to be darker than usual.

Edwina only heard a calm, indifferent female voice coming into her ears—

“…… All I need is a commitment. ”

……

"Where?"

The little apple-faced girl wrapped in a cloak walked like a little brown mouse through the corridor covered with a scarlet carpet.

This is the second floor of the main building, and there are large and small portraits hanging on both sides of the corridor, and behind the dozens of doors in the middle of the portrait is a lounge for the exclusive use of guests, due to some special needs of the aristocratic ball room, in order to take care of the guests. Unless it is a servant brought up by a guest, the second floor and above are forbidden places for servants to set foot in.

This also made it convenient for the little girl to find someone here, and she was never noticed by the maid and servant. Because there was no one in the corridor at all.

"Oh, I know! Aunt Elizabeth has a dedicated lounge on the third floor, and now that the ball has just begun, no one will go up there, and it's the best place to talk! ”

The little girl brothers snapped their fingers. But her immature little hands were so soft that she couldn't make a sound at all, and she wasn't depressed, and her face flashed with cunning, and she praised herself triumphantly:

"Aunt Elizabeth is so clever! Of course, Aurora is smarter! ”

But wait until she finds the dedicated lounge on the third floor. By the time he pressed his ear to the wooden door, the conversation between the two men in the room had come to an end.

“…… So, let's make an agreement. Until the engagement is finalized, I hope that what you have been doing lately can be put to a halt for a while, because it will be bad for us if things end up being different from what you expected. ”

Elizabeth looked at the handsome man in front of her and said in a calm voice.

Lancet was slightly surprised. "I thought it was for you to marry someone who was your childhood sweetheart. It would be a better choice than marriage. ”

"I just know that none of us have the right to decide in this matter!" Elizabeth's eyes flashed slightly, and she replied coldly, "And once the marriage is decided, the royal family and I want to see a decent wedding." ”

Therefore, once the marriage is settled, Lancet's actions during this period of time cannot be reminiscent of his attitude towards this marriage.

"I see!"

Lancet looked deeply at Elizabeth, who almost felt that he could not maintain that calm surface under such gaze, before he nodded, "As long as you do what you promised." ”

"Aunt Elizabeth, what did you promise him!"

The little girl outside the door clenched her fists and shouted silently.

Facing the princess of Ranster, she was slightly angry, and her beautiful face was a little red, "Of course, if my father has a move that is unfavorable to her, and I have the opportunity to know, I will definitely be, immediately, immediately, immediately, ”

Although she knew that this was a gaffe, Elizabeth couldn't help but use an accent at the end to satirize this man's lack of grace, and even insulted her in front of someone who might become his fiancée with the exchange of helping his true beloved.

Lancet smiled, unexplained.

In fact, with the emperor's attention to Ann, if he wants to do something to Ann, it is unlikely that Elizabeth will know in advance.

His intention in exchange for this was just to let Elizabeth see the future of this marriage, after all, it was not enough to only do work from the Grand Duchess's side, and if the queen and princess were also working on it, it would surely make the third emperor hesitate.

As for Elizabeth's ability to get any information that would help Ann in an emergency, it would be an additional incident.

After all, with Lancet's habits, it was impossible for him to make any really embarrassing demands on a young girl, although because of Lin An's affairs, he had a very bad impression of the royal family.

In the silence of speechlessness, Lenster heard a slight grinding sound.

"Who!" He jerked in the direction of the door.

"-Scared!"

When Aurora heard Elizabeth's words, she stepped on her cloak in excitement and anger, and was startled by Lancet's voice, but she really slipped a little, and when she got up, she didn't dare to look at the situation, and ran to the next room without looking back, and slammed the door shut.

But she was still worried that Lancet and Elizabeth would enter the room, and after locking the door, she was scurrying around in the room, when suddenly her cloak hooked, and she fell to the ground, and a doorway suddenly appeared silently in the right wall.

Aurora was overjoyed, didn't think much about it, endured the burning pain in her palms, got up and immediately rushed in, groped behind the door for a while, and the secret door closed again, and at this time there was no sound of the door being opened.

"It's finally all right!"

Aurora listened for a moment, breathed a sigh of relief, and wondered where this secret passage leads.

After walking dozens of steps along the secret passage, she suddenly heard two familiar voices, a man and a woman, faintly coming from a small hole, which were extremely clear.

“…… Don't, don't! There are a lot of people down there! Ludwig was there, and Catherine ......"

“…… It's okay, Catherine won't mind...... As for your guardian knight, so many times, see how many times he has found out, hehe...... Via's baby, come here, ......."

(To be continued)

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Character Cards:

Aurora - Odin's second daughter, twelve years old. Character template: Zhao Min Lori version, precocious personality, proud, and slightly extreme, curious.